Basic pages

Booking a room

Every room in the building can be booked by anyone with an account, for any period up to a full working day. Bookings close at midnight on the day before, and a room left unclaimed for fifteen minutes goes back into the pool.

Who can book

Staff, for any room.

Students, for the four rooms on the ground floor.

Visitors, through the person who invited them.

What a booking holds

A booking is a room, a period and a purpose. The purpose is shown on the screen outside the door, so keep it short and keep it accurate — it is the only thing anyone walking past has to go on.

• The room, which cannot be changed once the booking is made.
• The period, in half hours, which can.
• The purpose, which is public.
• A note to the caretaker, which is not.

Changing one

Open the booking and edit it. There is no separate cancel: clear the period and save, and the room is released. A booking that has already started can be shortened but not moved, because the screen outside the door has already announced it.

1. Find the booking under My bookings.
2. Change the period, or clear it.
3. Save. The screen updates within a minute.

Rooms 1 to 4 have a hearing loop. Room 7 does not, and the lift to it is out until March.

The room is the least of it. Book the room, then tell the people.

Written by the facilities team. Corrections to facilities@example.com, or through the form on the intranet. There is a printer friendly version at the foot of every page.

Declaring a table column

A column is declared once and applied everywhere it has to be applied. The component takes the role and puts it on the header cell and on every body cell beneath it.

$build['table'] = [
  '#type' => 'component',
  '#component' => 'mantra_starter:table',
  '#props' => [
    'columns' => [
      ['header' => $this->t('Component'), 'role' => 'grow'],
      ['header' => $this->t('Summary'), 'role' => 'text-sm'],
    ],
    'rows' => $rows,
  ],
];

The same thing from a template, where the props are handed over as a mapping:

{{ include('mantra_starter:table', {
  columns: [
    { header: 'Component'|t, role: 'grow' },
    { header: 'Summary'|t, role: 'text-sm' },
  ],
  rows: rows,
}, with_context = false) }}

What the component declares

Every value the role can take is enumerated in the component's metadata, so an unknown one fails validation rather than rendering as a class nobody styled.

props:
  type: object
  properties:
    columns:
      type: array
      items:
        type: object
        properties:
          role:
            type: string
            enum:
              - shrink
              - grow
              - text-sm

What the roles do

width: 0 is a bid of zero rather than a width, which auto layout then floors at the minimum width:

.col-shrink {
  width: 0;
  min-width: fit-content;
  white-space: nowrap;
}
.col-grow {
  width: 100%;
}

Anything that has to move after the page is rendered is a behaviour, and a behaviour runs once per element:

Drupal.behaviors.exampleTableStyles = {
  attach(context) {
    once('example-table-style', '[data-table-style]', context).forEach(
      (select) => {
        select.addEventListener('change', () => render(select));
      },
    );
  },
};

And the measurements the whole thing was settled by, which are not code in any language:

column        no role    with role
------------  ---------  ---------
check box        47px       31px
title           212px      608px
summary         604px      288px
operations      118px       96px

Applying for a place

Applications open on the first Monday of October and close six weeks later. There is one form, it can be saved and returned to, and nothing is looked at until the window shuts.

Start an application Save and come back later

Before you start

Have the reference numbers of any previous application to hand. The form asks for them and will not let you past the second step without them. Where do I find these?

• A reference number, in the form AP-2026-0000.
• The name of the person who supervised you.
• Two dates, neither of which has to be exact.

If you have applied before

Your previous answers are carried over. Check them: several of the questions changed this year, and a carried-over answer to a changed question is the most common reason an application comes back.

Review last year's answers

Withdrawing

An application can be withdrawn at any point before the window closes, and cannot be withdrawn after it. Withdrawing deletes the answers rather than hiding them, so take a copy first if you want one.

Withdraw this application

Questions to the admissions office. The office does not read applications and cannot tell you how yours is going.

Opening hours

The building is open to everyone during core hours and to staff at all times. The times below are the ones on the door.

Room capacities

Centred in the editor, which writes the alignment as a class on the table rather than on each cell:

Charges

Wide enough to want the wrapper the author reached for:

Getting here

The map

What the entrance looks like

The embed replaces this paragraph once its script has run. Until then it is a paragraph, and it is styled like one.

Getting in